The new Pantech & Curitel PT-S170 phone has an unusual design. The phone is a slider, with a screen that pops-up to form the viewfinder of the included camcorder.
This sliding/folding/swivel CDMA phone comes with a 1.9 inch 176X220 pixel screen and an MP3 player.
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LG has a new slim slider music phone, the KV5900. Its a mere 93.5×43.8×14.4 mm in size, and weighs in at 81grams. It has 512 MB of memory, good for up to 120 songs.
Multi-tasking capabilities allow the user to play music, games and talk on the phone at the same time [ good luck with that one ].
LG Releases Slim MP3 Slide Phones - Chosun Ilbo, Nov.4, 2005
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Spanish company Energy Sistem has a new MP3 player dubbed the Inngenio 1000.
The Inngenio 1000 is quite compact at 65×35x15 mm and 33 g. It works with MP3, WMA, WAV, MTV (video), JPG, ID3 tagged and LRC file formats. The screen is small-ish at 96×64 pixels. It comes with 1 GB of flash memory and lasts for up to 12 hours of music.
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If the question is – which LCD monitor delivers the most accurate color reproduction? … then the answer is – the new SpectraView 2180WG-LED by NEC, at least according to Tom’s Hardware Guide. The high fidelity of the 2180WG is thanks to the use of LED backlighting … instead of those cold cathode fluorescent lamps normally used by LCDs.
Tom says that “superiority (of the color rendering) is overwhelming”, thus making it the ideal monitor for apps such as photo retouching.
Alas, the pixel response time, which ranges up to 36 ms, makes it a poor choice for video, and an even worse one for games.
The First Lumileds LCD Display - Tom’s Hardware Guide, October 28, 2005
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Here’s something different. The Faucet Light attaches to most faucets and turns on with the water stream to infuse the water with a pale blue aura.
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Today’s New York Times has a nice review of the Fly Pentop Computer, which has just become available.
The Fly Pentop is marketed as an educational product for children aged 8 to 13. It combines a processor with some software and an optical scanner into the shape of a pen. The scanner keeps track of what is written and responds via audio feedback according to software that is activated. Draw, for example, a calculator on paper and Fly narrates the digits that are (virtually) pressed and responds with the answer. And, after activating the Notepad feature, Fly reads back whatever words have been written on the paper. The user can draw a piano keyboard and then proceed to play it.
Factor in interchangeable software, some dictionaries, games, and interactive textbooks and downloadable tests and pretty soon we’re talking low-cost metacognitive skills enhancement.
The Pen Gets a Whole Lot Mightier - NYT, November 17, 2005
Taiwan’s HTC Corporation continues to design nice-looking and nicely-spec’d converged devices. The new Muse is a good example of HTC’s handiwork. Its clearly a music-oriented phone — the name and the dedicated buttons give it away –, but with a raft of other functions.
Based on the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, the Muse comes with dual speakers and 4GB of flash memory as well as an FM tuner. It has 2 cameras, one of them with a resolution of 2.1 MP. It offers Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and IR connectivity.
The Muse is a tri-band GSM phone that offers a number of high-speed data transfer protocols ranging from GPRS, to EDGE and UMTS and possibly even the high-speed downlink packet access (HSPDA) which can go to 8-10 Mbps.
HTC Muse – Mobile Entertainment Communicator - CoolSmartPhone
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Samsung’s recently announced SPH-V8200, its new eight megapixel cameraphone, remains somewhat of a mystery item in terms of features & functions, but some pics are becoming available, such as this image from mobilekorea.tv.
Photo: Samsung 8-megapixel Phone, SPH-V8200 - mobilekorea, 08 November 2005
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Just in time for the buying season, Tom’s Hardware, via their new DenGuru website, has published a new Buyers Guide. 
The complete list consists of 37 items ranging from notebook computers to digital cameras to caffeinated shower soap, and is heavily tech & gadget oriented.
The lead-off item, and presumably the most desirable gadget on the list is the Acer Ferrari 4000 notebook. The 4000 comes with a carbon fiber case, an AMD Turion 1.8 GHz processor, an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 GPU, a 15.4″ widescreen LCD and a 100 GB hdd.
From the reviewer’s perspective, the Acer Ferrari 4000 scored highly on the four P’s: power, performance, price and pulchritude.
Holiday Buyers Guide 2005 - DenGuru, 1 Nov 2005
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Motorola today announced 4 additions to the RAZR family of phones. Two of the four are just colorized versions of the original RAZR, which now comes in pink and blue, as well as the previous black and silver. The third addition is the RAZR V3c, that works on CDMA networks. The phone also comes with EvDO for high-speed downloading of data, a 1.3 MP camera and 30 MB of memory.
Then there’s the RAZR V3i noted in the title. This model has the same iTunes music software as the ROKR phone of a while ago. As in the case of the ROKR, the number of songs is limited to 100. The V3i has a 1.23 MP camera and a TransFlash memory card slot.
Including the previously-announced RAZR V3x, aka V1150, that brings the number of RAZR incarnations to a total of four.
Four New Motorola RAZR Handsets - Motorola news release, November 8, 2005
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